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Wordsworth’s critical writings are more substantial than their number suggests. They consist of the preface to Lyrical Ballads in the three forms of 1798 (brief), 1800, and 1802 (substantially enlarged); and two essays which were added to the 1815 edition of his poems. Arguments in the former provoked hostility which damaged Wordsworth’s poetic reputation for a long period. It was written, he maintained, ‘solely to gratify’ Coleridge.
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A. N. Whitehead, Science and the Modem World, Cambridge, 1932, p. 248.
J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Scott, Edinburgh, 1837–8, vol. VI, pp. 60–1.
Cf. Herbert Read, The True Voice of Feeling, London, 1953, p. 210: ‘But Wordsworth was a philosophical poet, and not a poetical philosopher. This implies that his faith was based on intuitions rather than on processes of reasoning.’
Horace N. Pym (ed.), Memories of Old Friends, being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox, London, 1883, p. 199.
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Pinion, F.B. (1984). Poetic Theory and Practice. In: A Wordsworth Companion. Macmillan Literary Companions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05718-4_19
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